Foundry House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Foundry House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-footing-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foundry House, Little Yeldham Road, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 387
- Coordinates
- 52.01798, 0.63849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foundry House is a house with an early 19th-century front range and a 17th-century rear range. The front range is faced with gault brick and features a hipped red plain tiled roof and a central red brick chimney stack. It is two storeys high and has pilaster strips on the right and left. The front has two vertically sliding sash windows with stone heads and keystones. A central gabled porch, also with a red tiled roof, has a 20th-century part glazed door. The rear range is timber framed, with parts that are brick faced, weatherboarded, and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. It is also two storeys tall and includes a three-light 19th-century window on the first floor, along with a 19th-century red tiled lean-to porch featuring a half-glazed door. A 17th-century diamond leaded window can be found at the rear. The house is situated on a prominent corner site.
Local climate
Foundry House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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